Hal
New member
For those of you who live in a dry climate, have you ever vented your sump/equipment room into the basement or general living space without it causing problems?
In my old house I had to vent my basement equipment room to the outside or else it caused humidity issues in the finished basement. It would rust any metal that was near the equipment room. Installing a powered vent to the outside fixed the problem. This was in a decently humid climate (Michigan).
My new house is in Colorado, which is a very dry climate. It's basically a desert at altitude. Typical humidity levels are 30-40%, whereas recommended humidity for a house is 45-55%. Based on this, it seems like it might be possible to vent my fish room into the living space of the house, or at least into the basement.
However, salty humid air seems different than non-salty humid air. And I know if theory that evaporated water should not bring any salt with it, but my last fish room had salt creep all over the place.
Has anybody done this? Thoughts?
In my old house I had to vent my basement equipment room to the outside or else it caused humidity issues in the finished basement. It would rust any metal that was near the equipment room. Installing a powered vent to the outside fixed the problem. This was in a decently humid climate (Michigan).
My new house is in Colorado, which is a very dry climate. It's basically a desert at altitude. Typical humidity levels are 30-40%, whereas recommended humidity for a house is 45-55%. Based on this, it seems like it might be possible to vent my fish room into the living space of the house, or at least into the basement.
However, salty humid air seems different than non-salty humid air. And I know if theory that evaporated water should not bring any salt with it, but my last fish room had salt creep all over the place.
Has anybody done this? Thoughts?
